Researchers describe a fundamental mechanism of antibiotic resistance. What happens in a bacterium that is resistant to the antibiotic fusidic acid? With a stop-motion movie at the atomic level, they ...

A patient with a severe infection is prescribed a potent antibiotic. Hopes for improvement are high, but just after treatment ...

Scientists from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a method to isolate genes from amounts of microbial DNA so tiny that it would take 20,000 samples to weigh as much as a ...

Antibiotics are widely considered one of the most important advances in the history of medicine. Their introduction into clinical practice during the 1940s marked a major milestone in the control of ...

Antibiotics are a medical marvel, but many microbes are gaining the ability to resist and tolerate these therapeutics. St.

Antibiotics are a medical marvel, but many microbes are gaining the ability to resist and tolerate these therapeutics.

Gram-negative bacteria possess an asymmetric cell envelope in which the outer membrane serves as a selective barrier to external agents, including many antibiotics. Embedded within this bilayer are ...

Metagenomic libraries have been prepared to screen for the presence of antibiotic resistance genes in tiny environmental samples. Scientists from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of ...

Inspiration takes many forms. For Jianhua Guo, it was his friend’s daughter’s diarrhoea. Guo — an environmental microbiologist at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia — was studying the ...

Painkillers we often trust — ibuprofen and acetaminophen — may be quietly accelerating one of the world’s greatest health crises: antibiotic resistance. Researchers discovered that these drugs not ...

At WIRED Health, British surgeon Ara Darzi said AI is set to transform the diagnosis and treatment of drug-resistant infections. But a lack of incentives means innovation may not reach patients.